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Dish Network's new Sling TV service, which starts rolling out this week, is an unapologetically niche product. If you're looking for a streaming video service that's a perfect substitute for cable or satellite TV, Sling TV isn't it. At this point, nothing is. What Sling TV does, and does well, is deliver a stripped-down sampling of the pay-TV universe -- the basic package includes only a dozen cable networks, plus an on-demand movie service and some original online programming -- to a TV, laptop or mobile device. I've been playing with the service for the last few days, and was pleasantly surprised by the picture quality (with some exceptions) and the nimble user...

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Dish Network's new Sling TV service, which starts rolling out this week, is an unapologetically niche product. If you're looking for a streaming video service that's a perfect substitute for cable or satellite TV, Sling TV isn't it. At this point, nothing...

Jared Leto of "Dallas Buyers Club" has spent $5 million on an unusual 1940s compound in Hollywood Hills West.
The 1.5-acre gated property was once part of the Lookout Mountain Air Force Station, where the Pentagon's motion picture and...

Fox News Channel anchor Bill O'Reilly is executive producing a new 10-part documentary series on the American West."Legends & Lies: Into the West" will mix new interviews with archival photos and forensic science to examine the tales of such...

Walking through the living room of their historic rental house near the Chateau Marmont, husband-and-wife designers Robert and Cortney Novogratz are excited to point out some of their latest creations.
They start with a vintage-inspired black dining...

Professional dancers Derek Hough and Mark Ballas of the series “Dancing With the Stars” have sold a Studio City house for $1.85 million.
Set on nearly a third of an acre, the remodeled 1962 home will have a star turn on an HGTV series, according to the...

Yahoo Inc.'s share of the search market in the United States climbed above 10% last month as the search engine became the default option on the latest version of the Firefox browser.
The news was followed Thursday by a letter from an investor...

Hot Property was just a kernel of an idea when Ruth Ryon proposed it in 1984 to Dick Turpin, then-editor of The Times' Real Estate section. The reporter thought there could be a column in the short stories she had started writing on notable people and...

For twin brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott, fixing up houses and selling them started when they were 17-year-olds in Canada. Now Drew (the real estate agent) and Jonathan (the licensed contractor) exercise their skills as the stars of "Property...

HBO typically needs a wheelbarrow to haul all of the trophies it collects during awards season.
Top-tier Hollywood producers, directors and stars, including Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh and Matthew McConaughey, long have been lured by the rich...

When "This Old House" premiered on the Boston PBS station WGBH in 1979, few could have predicted it would spawn an entirely new television genre: the home-improvement show. The series that made Bob Vila a household star and inspired the...

Are you struggling to sell your house? Did you have a renovation nightmare? Does your dwelling have its own story to tell?
If so, you might be a candidate for help from a television home show.
But it's not easy. "We are inundated with people...

To the editor: Thanks to Steve Lopez for exposing the failure of the state Department of Veterans Affairs to provide disabled veterans with much-needed levels of care and housing services. ("Badly needed veterans home sits half empty; no kitchen is a...

Nowadays, it’s the price tag that makes a house famous. The most expensive U.S. home ever sold, a single-family Connecticut house bought by a company, recently went for $120 million.
It used to be the owners who made the house famous.
Which made Beverly...

Actor and eco-activist Ed Begley Jr.'s "aha" moment about the environment came during the first Earth Day in 1970. He heard the talk about air and water pollution, and it struck a chord.
He had personally experienced the effects of L.A.'s...

Popular talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres, who is known for her passion for architecture and design, will next produce a six-episode design competition for HGTV, according to an announcement Tuesday.
"Ellen’s Design Challenge,"...

Interior designer David Bromstad is known for including his own original paintings in the interiors he designs on his HGTV program "Color Splash."
And now Bromstad's fans can incorporate his artwork into their wardrobes, thanks to his...